---
title: "Can You Tell Which of These Models Is CGI?"
description: "## Imma Real"
date: "2019-05-23"
modified: "2019-05-23"
authors:
  - name: "Victor Tangermann"
    job_title: "Senior Editor"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/model-cgi-influencer"
categories:
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
tags:
  - "fashion"
  - "instagram"
  - "models"
  - "the digest"
---

# Can You Tell Which of These Models Is CGI?

![Imma, a CGI fashion model, just scored a make-up modeling gig for a Japanese cosmetics brand.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/model-cgi-influencer.png>)
*\<em\>Image: i-D Japan\</em\>*

## Imma Real

Spoiler: it's only the one in the middle.

The model in question is Instagram [influencer Imma](<https://www.instagram.com/imma.gram/>), who has racked up over 50,000 followers.

Imma may be rendered entirely by a computer, but that hasn't stopped her from picking up her first gig: modeling Japanese makeup brand Kate Cosmetics for the Vice owned site *i-D*. In the photos, she's posing alongside real human models, adding to the effect.

## Virtual Models

Surprisingly, Imma isn't the only virtual Instagram model around. For instance, Lil Miquela has garnered [a lot of attention](<https://www.inverse.com/article/52595-virtual-social-media-influencers>) for her posts on Instagram with 1.5 million followers, but is arguably less photorealistic and easier to spot.

Imma even took part in an advertorial interview with *i-D*. She had some insightful comments to offer up when asked about how beauty needs to change in the future:

"The idea that the pursuit of an ideal and something that is like one can coexist," she said, as interpreted by Google Translate. "There is no need to choose one or the other."

**READ MORE:** [One of these models doesn't exist](<https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/22/the-big-picture-virtual-model-imma/>) \[*Engadget*\]

**More on virtual people:** *[Watch a Real Pastor Baptize an Anime Girl in Virtual Reality](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/pastor-baptize-anime-virtual-reality>)*

## Author
I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida.

### Author social links  
[Bluesky](<https://bsky.app/profile/vtanger.bsky.social>)